With The Writing Minilessons Book, engage students in inquiry that leads to the discovery and understanding of a general principle they can apply to their learning. Principles are based on the kindergarten behaviors and understandings in the one-of-a-kind, market-leading Literacy Continuum.
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The TCRWP Virtual Summer School Curriculum for Rising Grade 1 students has been designed to provide students who will be entering Grade 1 in the fall with a 6-week sequence of engaging learning that, above all, supports their foundational skills, including phonemic awareness, phonics, main idea, argument, and more. The modules are also available for individual purchase.
The TCRWP Virtual Summer School Curriculum for Rising Grade 2 students has been designed to provide students who will be entering Grade 2 in the fall with a 6-week sequence of engaging learning that, above all, supports their foundational skills, including phonemic awareness, phonics, main idea, argument, and more. The modules are also available for individual purchase.
The TCRWP Virtual Summer School Curriculum for Rising Grade 3 students has been designed to provide students who will be entering Grade 3 in the fall with a 6-week sequence of engaging learning that, above all, supports their foundational skills, including phonemic awareness, phonics, main idea, argument, and more. The modules are also available for individual purchase.
The TCRWP Virtual Summer School Curriculum for Rising Grade 4 students has been designed to provide students who will be entering Grade 4 in the fall with a 6-week sequence of engaging learning that, above all, supports their foundational skills, including phonemic awareness, phonics, main idea, argument, and more. The modules are also available for individual purchase.
The TCRWP Virtual Summer School Curriculum for Rising Grade 5 students has been designed to provide students who will be entering Grade 5 in the fall with a 6-week sequence of engaging learning that, above all, supports their foundational skills, including phonemic awareness, phonics, main idea, argument, and more. The modules are also available for individual purchase.
The TCRWP Virtual Summer School Curriculum for Rising Grade 6 students has been designed to provide students who will be entering Grade 6 in the fall with a 6-week sequence of engaging learning that, above all, supports their foundational skills, including phonemic awareness, phonics, main idea, argument, and more. The modules are also available for individual purchase.
This unit engages young kids to write for real-world reasons: to make signs, letters, how-to books, songs, and playful rhymes. It supports phonemic awareness and letter/sound knowledge. Research is clear that writing is one of the most potent ways for young kids to practice and develop skills at stretching out words, segmenting them, and hearing initial, middle, final sounds.
Writing Teeny Adventure is designed to communicate to kids that their stories, their lives, and their words matter, and that school is a place to bring all of themselves to the page. Writing workshops can be a place to connect with others, to feel seen and heard and honored, and the curriculum aims to do all this.
In this module, Rising Grade 3 students will learn to develop characters by adding distinctive details that reoccur in every book of their series, by thinking about their character’s traits and finding ways to show those through actions and dialogue. They’ll give their character a series of problem adventures.
This action-packed writing unit for Rising Grades 4–6 students draws kids in right from the start, creating a buzz of excitement as they share their knowledge with each other. Writers will generate ideas for their information pieces by thinking about topics they know. They will plan out how their pieces will go, thinking both about their overall structure, and the organization within each section.
This module, designed for Rising Grades 4–6 students, starts with a week of identity-rich narrative writing to help build community and usher students into the writing work. Then students will turn to writing reviews as they learn to make clear claims and to support those claims with reasons and concrete evidence.
Joyful Writing in PreK contains 100 writing minilessons that spark creativity, imagination, and learning. Writing minilessons are brief, focused, explicit lessons that help children understand and expand on the characteristics of effective writing and nurture their ability to write with purpose, imagination and voice. Each minilesson engages children in inquiry that leads to the discovery of a general principle from The Literacy Continuum.
